How Tarantino Builds Tension

[@SteveBuccellato]

Tarantino IS a genius, but this idea of giving the audience information (or withholding it) to create tension (suspense) is basically Hitchcock’s entire career. Entertaining video, tho!

[@GregHuffman1987]

Ironic that you say that because during an interview I recall Tarantino saying that he thought Hitchcock was overrated.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

I'd put Hitchcock maybe in the top 20 directors of all time, but not top 5. Anyway, Tarantino said that the coffee narration was there because he hates writing expositional dialogue, so he did this "in your face" exposition via the narration instead.

[@MrFOLM]

@@princeofcupspoc9073 the bomb under the table is the example tarantino gave for this. www.goodreads.com/quotes/728496-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-suspense-and-surprise-and

[@iloveurgirl]

@@MrFOLM thats exactly what i was thinking of, diffusing the tension

[@yoyoyodude1748]

True but i still think vertigo is overrated

[@dungeon-wn4gw]

There's something Tarantino does ALOT to build the tension to peak levels, and I LOVE it. Sometime during a long dialogue scene, the camera either zooms in on, or stays still on the faces of the characters in the scene, and you can see every single detail of their faces, and especially, you can see their red skin tone, the veins, everything. I fucking love that little thing he does.

[@sebastianvasquezcipriani4866]

Nathan Sanders examples??

[@sociopathfrank1086]

Sebastián Vásquez Cipriani Calvin Candies dinner table scene

[@dungeon-wn4gw]

@@sebastianvasquezcipriani4866 In Jackie Brown, the camera quietly lingers on Samuel L Jackson during his confrontation with Robert D Niro. In Django Unchained, at the very end of the dialogue scene between Christolph Waltz and Leonardo Dicaprio when they make their deal, Christolph looks down on Leo, and the camera is very quietly close to his face.

[@MarioGonzalez-rm8cb]

Its called dramatic irony, when the audience knows something the character(s) doesn’t

[@rea8585]

One of my favorite things is that he gets you to care about the characters so deeply you really worry about what is going to happen to them. There would be no tension without that :)

[@gordonfreeman694]

Tarantino is a genius filmmaker.

[@raphaelanibasa7570]

I love when someone recognises and appreciate the effect of subtle things in movies.

[@danielslavutskiy564]

The pub scene in inglorious, hands down one of the greatest scenes in movie history

[@techslapping]

One of my favorite videos of yours

[@AlexG-kp8sv]

Personally, I really didn't like the beginning of the Hateful Eight. Once the coffee got poisoned, and the tension started to mount, though? Incredible

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

"Close the fucking door. I take two pieces, two pieces!" Chekov's door.

[@ElroyDesmond]

Your video has made me want to rewatch all the Tarantino movies asap.

[@mohamadtaim1721]

Landa knew the moment he set his feet in the house.

[@youarelife3437]

MMMM...Feet!

[@djfedezaza]

Great video.. funny how i was also thinking just the other day that the opening scene from inglourious basterds is, imho one oh the greatest if not the greatest scene of all time. Just pure cinema perfection.

[@bengalcat34]

Fantastic video, I couldn't explain Tarantino's mind any better. Very underrated channel right here!

[@masterchanell]

I think it was Hitchcock who said that the diference between mistery and thriller is if the characters are unwraping the mistery with the viewers or if the viewers knew the secret all along the movie

[@donkrusovica9049]

Sooo in a triler we should know the secret all along? What about Seven, Fight club, machinist...

[@dominicmarinduque848]

@@donkrusovica9049 dude what? he said there is DIFFERENCE in those genres, he didn't say that ALL movies should be the same and just tell the viewers the secret, lmao movies are different bro.

[@bullymonk710]

@@donkrusovica9049 You understood nothing lol

[@Yanara0510]

Christoph Waltz: absolutely fantastic! I almost died of fear haha

[@mosey4915]

Your Content is insane keep it up

[@ChristopherHol85]

You really did a great job at explaining his format to his movies n how he builds suspense, good work

[@bonnczech6974]

The moment when rick yelled at hippies in the car

[@jacksonbear1]

That and when Cliff confronted the Manson Clan

[@diegolazzzo]

Amazing content, can't believe I hadn't found this channel before. Your vids are awesome, from the duration and how precise they are to your narration and speaking tone while you explain and transmit your knowledge about movies, not to mention it seems like we have very similar tastes :) Definitely earned a subscriber and will be checking out everything you post. Hope this helps as motivation to keep doing what you do, much appreciated.

[@devdtt23]

Amazing work

[@happysaffa8871]

Great video man!!

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

Those long talking scenes in Inglorious Bastards, especially the intro, horrifying

[@videoonthestreetashraf1537]

I'm from Egypt 🇪🇬 I like your videos very much You are very clever 👌

[@vivekkumar-rr9gj]

he is not that clever others are also making this kind of videos

[@videoonthestreetashraf1537]

vivek kumar sorry but I don't in usa This very good for me

[@maisarah9090]

vivek kumar others like who?

[@videoonthestreetashraf1537]

Maisarah where are you from ?

[@captaincouch]

I love the videos you make and have been watching them for a while and they're all amazing but I've always felt that they end abruptly. Like it feels like there should be a proper end to it, the build-ups are amazing and it feels that you guys should end your videos in the same amazing way. I hope you guys read this.

[@qwertyuiopqwertyyyyy]

I really like your videos! Keep it up!!

[@amanjaiswal9389]

Loved it!The master of tension Quentin Tarantino 💓

[@oscargadefrimann]

Information is key.

[@jasoncasillas6993]

I love Tarantino. And you’re right about everything in this video, BUT give credit where credit is due. Alfred Hitchcock created or at least mastered the device of “secrets”. Giving the audience a secret to build that tension.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

The history actually goes back about 3000 years, at least in any writing that we have.

[@Hannah-sl7in]

amazing amazing amazing, i love your videos so much

[@CluelessIndianGamer]

Quick question, would you prefer landing a sudden shock and then let the audience go "ohhhh" or build some tension and let the audience predict as to what's gonna follow?

[@seblerenard7288]

You should have mentioned Hitchcock's 'bomb under the table theory'...

[@surfgreen1636]

Great video man

[@__Mamu_]

This was a great analysis

[@jbot91]

SONS A BITCHES!

[@mangosarefun]

The first death scene on DeathProof Is so intense, I'm talking about the the blonde girl that's in the same car btw

[@mostafaosama53]

He always uses actors with high level facial expressions skills

[@123rebelguy]

Thats great explaination .

[@tomcole9429]

Btw, when the audience knows a secret most of the characters don't know is called 'dramatic irony'

[@husainfoolath4287]

Incredible !

[@mickroyster6442]

Tarantino is a great filmmaker but I think we should give credit where credit is due. He got this from Alfred Hitchcock and John Carpenter, some of the best filmmakers to ever hold a camera

[@sebastianvasquezcipriani4866]

SUPERB VIDEO

[@wombat6]

tl;dr Tarantino studied Hitchcock and most likely heard his interview about people having a conversation at a table that has a bomb underneath it.

[@lokeyfunny]

Brilliant - Tarantino and this video!

[@naveenrajh1941]

Thanks

[@youarelife3437]

I'm no Tarantino but as I get better at learning film making I see more and more that the key is not to try to learn from books or videos or even other films if possible but try to live your life more fully and keep catching/observing how you and other people feel and think and act in different situations at different times and try to translate those into your art in new creative ways.

[@HansaGBB]

Great video mate

[@gothicwizard8520]

Ironic tension with thigs that we know but characer don't is Hitchooks tehique. Whole Rope, bath scene, ending of Vertigo....

[@MrFOLM]

The bomb under the table.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

In the bunker?

[@JacobMcCaslin]

3:00 It's called dramatic irony.

[@sandmanenters4187]

Youre good at this

[@gsprasad8601]

I came across an airhead who tweeted- 'Tarantino is not original'. Damn him.

[@sint0xicateme]

He does borrow a lot from Kamal Hassan. And one of the scenes from Inglorious Bastards was almost identical to Massacre in Rome...if you do a bit of research you can see that he has taken inspiration from quite a lot of people...and he sometimes fails to make their ideas completely his own.

[@gsprasad8601]

@@sint0xicateme A lot from Kamal Haasan you mean ! Such a joke. One scene from Kill Bill and you say - 'A lot' ! Even the nouvelle vague was 'inspired'.

[@youngceaser8078]

Buddy you do awesome vids and this is another great one. I'm wondering could you do a piece on jake Gyllenhaal.

[@DocSportello838]

Cant wait for OUATIH!!!!

[@ap6160]

The "secret" is very similar to Hitchcock's Suspense Vs Surprise concept.

[@originalflimflam]

Dramatic Irony

[@DeusNyika]

Agh. This is beautiful

[@MrLemonsplash]

Great video. The only thing missing is more views & subs

[@satinderk3313]

"He can create tension by showing us something or by NOT showing something, he can create tension by a sound or a silence." Means go home suckers. Tarantino can create tension with whatever he wants. :)

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Like John Carpenter. This requires long takes, instead of the 10,000 half second cuts we get from more Hollywood films these days.

[@Ragaaci]

tarantino is a fucking mastermind

[@Wadewhen]

like a mexican standoff we have mulitplle people pointing guns at each other one of these guns could go off at any time the stress of the situation creates extreme tenstion Tention with music that fits to the tention and the camera with showing something or with a sound secrets see examples: 2:33 characters to say the secret or voice narration we need more than 2 people and tell to the third person(and the audience listening) that we are gonna blow him up in the tower but I am gonna tick back the server and no damage will be, I just want to see his face, don't tell him, that creates tension building up to the scene, and if he knows it from chat "or in a scene I am gonna use" that creates more tension that he knows like the aliens follow me without me knowing that builds tension until it actually happens "tension which is half heart with music and building to that moment"

[@taydo2245]

am i the only one who wants to click the like butten multabole times? great video!!! helpd me a lotttttt!!! thanks a bunch

[@AndreudePedro]

this is pure hitchcock

[@tikari3987]

brilliant :)

[@candidenkuranga]

Quentin Tarantino is the best

[@theroebuck123456789]

Tarantino knows how to build tension because he's a De Palma fanboy, the ending of Jackie Brown at the pawnshop is straight out of a De Palma especially its lighting

[@buffalo.blackk]

You’re calling his secret weapon a “simple secret”. Others call it dramatic irony.

[@nidpaul]

AU REVOIR SHOSHHANNA!

[@hazmanrostam2849]

I am so tense when magneto x got busted

[@MrParkerman6]

The problem with your theory of the poisoned coffee is that Tarintino didn't even know who poisoned the coffee in those scenes. Completely kills your theory.

[@oliverford5367]

The suspense scenes in Inglourious Basterds are all amazing, but the rest of the movie is ridiculous. Does anyone love the suspense scenes but hate the rest of it?

[@kchuntinghawk5514]

True romance has a lot of tension, I guess it stands alone

[@heitorlopes5978]

Pure Hitchcock

[@frankunodostres473]

this isn't even the best scene in the movie. that would be the bar scene

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

The blood dripping down Jennifer's face in the stagecoach, and then she smiles. It's so uncomfortably "non-PC," but he gets away with it solely because Jennifer's acting is so brilliant. This woman is pure evil.

[@Herfinnur]

How come I didn't notice this before?

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Because he's a good director. The first viewing of any film should be immersive. No techniques should be obvious. I appreciated the bullet dodging scene in the Matrix, but pretty much everyone watching was just trying to figure out where the cameras are placed. Not so good.

[@huntsman145]

How Tarantino Builds Tension = the exact same way Hitchcock did. Ever heard of him?

[@nomdeplume2213]

Theres something about his movies i don't like and cant figure it out haha i do really lile Django but thats about it

[@theoptimist4771]

4,119th view!!!!!!

[@Jwubbz101]

Are you the burger king foot lettuce guy?

[@Fushikatz]

These Techniques aren't unique Tarantinos. Most of them are basic drama techniques, but he does it well. Oh and it's Hans, not Haaans. It is a short vocal, like guns.

[@Hannah-sl7in]

RetroPuppetMaster no film technique is truly original film has been around for too long, the way in which techniques are used can be new and original.

[@benblexbenblex]

Tarantino is verbose.

[@123rebelguy]

Well i always know that waltz gona know that guy is sheltering the enemy ,why he streched it so long . The last thing could happen to micheal fesbender and team in long bar scene is germans will find out they are jews but he wrote too long for it .... i prefer long takes of antonioni and fellini over tarantino .

[@civilizedsatyr]

This voice over guy has way too much upspeak.

[@MrManUnicorn]

Dramatic irony nothing new here.

[@gmsjrninety]

Poopstick

[@goofballjones5220]

For someone that idolizes directors such as Sergio Leone, his scripts are way WAY too wordy. Leone would cut like 75% of all the needless goofy dialog Tarantino puts in his movies...mainly to just satisfy his ego. He's WAY overrated, an opinion I'm obviously in the minority with. I see him sitting there in his underwear at his computer with Final Draft....oh, sorry, his typewriter (writing on a computer isn't pretentious enough) and masturbating, going "They're gonna LOVE this line! I'm such a fucking genius!" every now and then.

[@Rand0mN0rwegianGuy]

This just reeks of jealousy tbh 👀 lmao